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Dadaab Environmental Rehabilitation and Restoration Workshop |
NETFUND organised a 2 day workshop in collaboration with Department of Refugee Affairs, United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Global Environment Facility –Small Grants Programme, and National Environment Management Authority to discuss the rehabilitation and restoration of the environment in the Dadaab Area. The workshop was a follow-up to the Dadaab Stakeholders Forum on Host Community Concerns held in April 2009, which had recommended the formulation and implementation of an Environmental Management Plan for the region.
The main objective of the workshop was to provide a platform to discuss and build consensus on a plan to address the environmental challenges being experienced in Dadaab. After the framework document was presented by NETFUND, plenary discussions were held to discuss and agree on the basic elements of the Plan.
A second workshop will be held in May to look critically at the updated framework document and come up with a strategic and clearly defined work plan to execute the rehabilitation projects. The Fund was pleased that regional members of parliament informed the workshop that, once the budget and implementation arrangement had been finalised, they would propose an allocation for the project in the national budget. Mr. Henry Ndede of UNEP assured the forum that United Nations Bodies would assist in funding the initiative. Read more
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